Cheshire Regiment - Roll of Honour of Officers of the Cheshire Regiment Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 13th Battalion Cheshire Regiment

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in 1915
1	15th March	STRINGER	Gerald Moffat	2Lt	-	25	A	UK	Ringwood, Hants	Bournemouth East Cemetery (S.I.154)	(1)
2	6th October	WHITE	Gilbert Clement Whit	Lt	-	23	DOW	France	CCS at Bailleul	Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extn (I.C.128)	(2)
Died in 1916
3	13th May	BATES	Ernest Harold	2Lt	-	26	KIA	France	"Zouave Valley", southeast of Souchez	Ecoivrez Military Cemetery (I.N.21)	(3)
4	13th May	GOULD	Arthur Edmund	Lt	-	31	KIA	France	"Zouave Valley", southeast of Souchez	Ecoivrez Military Cemetery (I.M.21)	(4)
5	7th July	COTTON	Arthur Edward	2Lt	-	22	KIA	France	La Boisselle, Somme	Thiepval Memorial (Pier and Face 3 C and 4 A)	-
6	7th July	DAVY	William Edward	Capt		23	KIA	France	La Boisselle, Somme	Thiepval Memorial (Pier and Face 3 C and 4 A)	-
7	7th July	HALL	Frederick Grainger	Capt	-	25	KIA	France	La Boisselle, Somme	Serre Road Cemetery No 2 (XVII.H.14)	(5)
8	7th July	METCALFE	John Chaytor	Major	-	34	KIA	France	La Boisselle, Somme	Ovillers Military Cemetery (Sp Mem 24)	(6)
9	7th July	NEWSTEAD	Rupert Randolph	2Lt	-	28	KIA	France	La Boisselle, Somme	Thiepval Memorial (Pier and Face 3 C and 4 A)	-
10	7th July	SOMERSET	Fitzroy Aubrey	Lt	MC	23	KIA	France	La Boisselle, Somme	Thiepval Memorial (Pier and Face 3 C and 4 A)	-
11	7th July	STEVENSON	Henry Fitzroy	Lt	-	33	KIA	France	La Boisselle, Somme	Thiepval Memorial (Pier and Face 3 C and 4 A)	-
12	7th July	STEWART	Douglas Alexander	2Lt	-	26	KIA	France	La Boisselle, Somme	Thiepval Memorial (Pier and Face 3 C and 4 A)
13	9th July	BELLIS	Cecil Magnus	2Lt	-	20	DOW	France	CCS at Corbie, Somme	Corbie Communal Cemetery Extn (I.C.57)	(7)
14	11th October	MAXWELL	Henry	Capt	-	22	KIA	France	West of Courcelette	Courcelette British Cemetery (VI.C.22)	(8)
15	11th October	ROBERTS	Robert James	2Lt	-	22	KIA	France	West of Courcelette	Courcelette British Cemetery (VI.C.22)	(9)
16	21st October	DICKIN	Albert Edward	2Lt	-	46	KIA	France	"Regina Trench", south of Grandcourt	Regina Trench Cemetery (II.B.27)	-
17	21st October	O'CALLAGHAN	James	2Lt	-	25	KIA	France	"Regina Trench", south of Grandcourt	Thiepval Memorial (Pier and Face 3 C and 4 A)	-
18	21st October	WEBB	Denys Stubbs	2Lt	-	19	KIA	France	"Regina Trench", south of Grandcourt	Stump Road Cemetery, Grandcourt (B.55)	-
19	25th October	GREEN	Gilbert Pitcher	2Lt	-	28	DOW	France	CCS at Warloy-Baillon	Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extn (V.D.1)	(10)
Died in 1917
20	22nd January	SHAW	Bernard Hudson	2Lt	-	23	KIA	Belgium	East of Ploegsteert Wood	Berks Cemetery Extension (I.K.8)	-
21	16th May	MALONE	William Adolphe	2Lt	-	30	KIA	Belgium	Near "Mortar Farm", west of Messines	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 19)	-
22	24th May	ELLIS	Douglas Wilmshurst	Lt	-	29	KIA	Belgium	Northeast of Wulverghem, west of Messines	St Quinten Cabaret Military Cemetery (II.F.7)	-
23	7th June	CURRY	William Gordon	2Lt	-	23	KIA	Belgium	"October Trench", west of Messines	Wulverghem-Lindenhoek Road Mil Cemetery (II.G.9)	(11)
24	7th June	McCULLAGH	Ernest Samuel	2Lt	-	23	KIA	Belgium	East of Wulverghem	Messines Ridge Cemetery (V.D.45)	(12)
25	22nd June	WALSH	Geoffrey Christian Lansdale	2Lt	-	20	KIA	Belgium	East of Messines	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 19)	-
26	5th August	MOUNTAIN	Cyril Robert Wightman	Capt	-	21	KIA	Belgium	Bellewaarde Ridge	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 19)	-
27	5th August	WILKINSON	William Oscar	Capt	-	24	KIA	Belgium	Bellewaarde Ridge	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 19)	-
28	11th August	SILCOCK	Percy Bryan	2Lt	-	22	DOW	Belgium	CCS at Brandhoek	Brandhoek New Military Cemetery (V.B.12)	(13)
Battalion disbanded in France on 16th February 1918
Notes: 1. STRINGER was accidentally killed when he was knocked down and ran over by a lorry. 2. WHITE was wounded by a "chance shot" in trenches near the River Lys near Armentieres. 3. BATES, according to the Battalion War Diary was killed on 13th June 1916. Date of death recorded by CWGC is 15th May 1916. 4. GOULD, according to the Battalion War Diary was killed on 13th June 1916. Date of death recorded by CWGC is 14th May 1916. 5. HALL was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the north of La Boisselle and reburied in Serre Road Cemetery No 2 in March 1928. 6. METCALFE is believe to be buried in Ollivers Military Cemetery and a Special Memorial has been erected in that Cemetery. 7. BELLIS was wounded at La Boisselle on 7th July 1916. 8. MAXWELL was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the west of Courcelette and was reburied in Courcelette British Cemetery in March 1919. 9. ROBERTS was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the west of Courcelette and was reburied in Courcelette British Cemetery in March 1919. 10. GREEN was wounded at Schwaben Redoubt on 21st October 1916. 11. CURRY was originally buried in a battlefield grave near "Nutmeg Lane" to the northeast of Wulverghem and reburied in Wulverghem-Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery in October 1919. 12. McCULLAGH was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the east of Wulverghem and reburied in Messines Ridge Cemetery in June 1920. 13. SILCOCK was wounded on Westhoek Ridge on 10th August 1917.

Those Officers of Other Regiments Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With

13th (Service) Battalion Cheshire Regiment

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
1	21st June 1917	HARRINGTON	Walter	2Lt	-	37	KIA	Belgium	East of Messines	St Quentin Cabaret Military Cemetery (II.H.5)	()
2	5th August 1917	EAST	The Rev Herbert Hinton	Capt	-	30	KIA	Belgium	Near Bellewaerde Ridge	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 56)	(2)
Notes: 1. HARRINGTON was detached from the Welsh Regiment. 2. EAST was detached from the Army Chaplains' Department.

Battalion History

13th (Service) Battalion.   This locally raised (see Note below) Battalion was formed at Port Sunlight, Wirral, on 1st September 1914 by Gershom Stewart MP.  The Battalion assembled and concentrated at Chester In October 1914, being placed under command of 74th Brigade, 25th Division. In December 1914 the Battalion was moved to Bournemouth.   To complete the intensive individual and collective training required for service with the BEF the Battalion was moved to the Aldershot area in May 1915.   On 25th September 1915 the Battalion entrained at Aldershot for Folkestone and embarked on RMS "Victoria" for Boulogne, arriving there in the evening of the 25th. The Battalion concentrated there and commenced the move to Armentieres, via Hazebrouck, Caestre and Nieppe, arriving on 28th September. Here the Battalion received instruction in trench warfare prior to 3rd October when the Battalion took over a sector of forward trenches on the north bank of the River Lys, 3 miles out of Armentieres.

The Battalion remained with 25th Division up to 16th February 1918 when it was disbanded.   A history of the actions and battles of the 25th Division can be viewed here.

(Note:   The 13th Battalion differed from other locally raised Battalions in that it had no second title (although there was a reference to "The Wirral Battalion" in the Regimental History), and it was allocated to a Division of the Third New Army (K3)

Regimental History

The Cheshire Regiment was formed on 1st July 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms, which saw the 2 separate Battalions of the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot re-titled to become the regular 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Regiment, with the Regimental Depot based at Chester Castle.

The 1881 reforms also added the Rifle Volunteer Corps (RVC) and Militia units within the Regimental District of the County of Cheshire to the Regimental Establishment as numbered Battalions of the Regiment. The Rifle Volunteer Corps (RVC) units were the 1st Cheshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, the 2nd (Earl of Chester's) Cheshire RVC, the 3rd Cheshire RVC, the 4th Cheshire (Cheshire and Derbyshire) RVC and the 5th Cheshire RVC. The Militia units of the Regiment were the 1st Royal Cheshire Light Infantry Militia and the 2nd Royal Cheshire Militia.

In 1908, as part of the Haldane Reforms, the Militia Battalions were reorganised and restructured forming the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion and the RVC Battalions were retitled as Battalions of the Regimental Territorial Force. The 1st Cheshire RVC became the 4th Battalion TF, the 2nd (Earl of Chester's) Cheshire RVC and the 3rd Cheshire RVC amalgamated and became the 5th (Earl of Chester's) Battalion TF, the 4th Cheshire RVC became the 6th Battalion TF and the 5th Cheshire RVC became the 7th Battalion TF.

After the Declaration of War on 4th August 1914 and up to 1st June 1918, the Cheshire Regiment had formed, disbanded or reconstituted 35 Territorial Force, Service, Garrison, Labour, Reserve, Graduated and Young Soldier Battalions.

Analysis of 13th Battalion Regimental Officer Casualties

Year	BE	FR	UK	TOTAL
1915		1	1	2
1916		17		17
1917	9			9
TOTALS	9	18	1	28

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